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Postby compared2what? » Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:24 am

And, to be fair, it's about sex, too!

You know. It's capable of more than one interpretation all of which might be wrong. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" could be constrained as covering the same several terrains, and a couple of others, too. And, for all anyone knows, there isn't any more intentionality in it than the late John Lennon's love of word-play. Extra meaning is all good, imo, unless it's construed as a command to start a false-flag operation in order to trigger a race war, or something of that nature.

I buried Paul, by the way.
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Postby Joe Hillshoist » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:27 am

To be honest sex makes more sense to me with that only ones song. I've tried heroin a few times and it sucks. I vomited non stop and was paranoid about falling asleep. What I didn't feel was in any wasted ina pleasant way, or an unpleasant one for that matter. I dunno what all the fuss was about. But sex can be cosmic, and interplanetary.

Speaking of Interplanetary, I met Jimi Hendrix once.

About 10 years ago.

He was in some dimension beyond the ones we normally inhabit. And was responsible for all the music coming down to humans on earth, and maybe to other things elsewhere. We had a chat, and he said that he couldn't play the music in him anymore. So he stopped playing and pretty soon after he died and ended up "here".

Well there was more to it than that, he had trancended the limits of music, and playing it on earth was unsatisfying for him cos he couldn't play the sounds he was hearing.

So he ended up being the avatar of music or something. Even the gods were moved by his music and gave him the literal great gig in the sky.

He was looking good, dressed incredibly futuristically, but still like Jimi in his style. And emanating from him were these waves of music. I had synethsesia and could see them. All the colours of the rainbow, including Octarine, and others not yet discovered by seance.

I had been in this room I'm typing in now, listening to these two songs when I got synethsesia and ended up travelling down the colours of sound to this place where Jimi was, in fact it was his place, he dominated it.

I'm sure those mushrooms I just ate had nothing to do with it.



I just realised something actually.

Brainpanhandler, you remember that alien abduction story I told?

Do you remember how it started with the buzzing?

That buzzing was an integral part of the experience, it initiated it, and the feellng of OBE started when the buzzing began to dominate my perception so everything else was drowned out. My mind seemed to travel down the buzzing when the "abduction attempt" started.

Same thing with the Jimi Hendrix er ... experience. The sound was dominating what I was experiencing to the point where no other perception was possible. I then travelled down the sound and met Jimbo in his role as god of music. Playing the worlds muso's like his instruments.

For anyone who hasn't read the account of the attempted alien abduction (for lack of a better term) that I went through one night its here.

I wonder if its possible to demonstrate a relationship between sound dominating perception and some sorts of interplanetary/interdimensional experience or ordinary OBEs?
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Postby brainpanhandler » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:35 am

Joe wrote:Brainpanhandler, you remember that alien abduction story I told?

Do you remember how it started with the buzzing?


How could I forget? I don't have time to write much at the moment, but when I first read your account I was reminded of Quatermass and the Pit. Here's a trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgmHsbkYo6c

I seem to remember that there was a buzzing associated with the ancient martians and I'll be damned if they don't look like horned mantid/grasshopper sort of thingys.
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Postby battleshipkropotkin » Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:02 pm

It's not Bowie, but it's certainly not of this world....

The Carpenters - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft!
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Postby compared2what? » Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:40 pm

Joe Hillshoist wrote:To be honest sex makes more sense to me with that only ones song. I've tried heroin a few times and it sucks. I vomited non stop and was paranoid about falling asleep.


LOL on the outside, SW (silent weeping) on the inside. One man's meat is another man's poison, and so forth. Feeling paranoia about falling asleep is, to me, as comprehensible as feeling frustration about the area rug not being a banana.

Sex sure is transcendent, or can be.

And for some (or so I hear) so can heroin.

It's primarily the "space travel's in my blood," "you get under my skin," and other such space-junk compatible little lyrical nuances that suggest to me that intravenous drug use may be on the writer's mind in "Another Girl, Another Planet." But we cannot all strike gold in the same place, and who cares, really, as long as we strike true gold. To recur to a totally different thread, ain't no big thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67SeV1pkcZE

Why does YouTube have to make life so complicated?

(1) I herein exercise my elsewhere stated obligation to condemn pedophiles irrespective of circumstance, when you get to the pedophile.

(2) I also note another wormhole, since those girls in the opening footage haven't aged a day in the six years since we last saw them in the video for the original version of "Space Oddity."

(3) I guess Ms. Hall didn't take that vow to leave one another never without crossing her fingers behind her back, which is no crime.

(4) That shit is so much more enjoyable when you don't have to look at Mr. Ferry, isn't it? He projects an astonishingly unlikeable aura for a man in his line of work. Avert your eyes.
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Postby brainpanhandler » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:50 pm

Image

I've been studying this picture. A few utterly facile observations/questions...

First of all, can I see her right nipple, complete with areola?! This image must have been produced by the photoshop technique of the day. Their faces look like air brushed photos and distinct from everything else in the style of their rendition. And who the hell is he waving to?
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Postby brainpanhandler » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:15 pm

Joe wrote:I dunno what all the fuss was about.


My guess is that you have no great desire to return to the womb.

But sex can be cosmic, and interplanetary.


Like between aliens and humans?

All the colours of the rainbow, including Octarine, and others not yet discovered by seance.


Did you mean science? Or is this a play on words?

I'm sure those mushrooms I just ate had nothing to do with it.


Have you ever seen the machine elves?

The Ian Brown Return to the Planet of the Apes image from the Stone Roses vid is a minor synchronicity in that I searched and searched for a piece from Jerry Goldsmith's score for the Planet of the Apes this morning. Alas, I couldn't find what I was looking for. Has there ever been a soundtrack more suited to a film? Maybe Neil Young on Dead Man?

I wonder if its possible to demonstrate a relationship between sound dominating perception and some sorts of interplanetary/interdimensional experience or ordinary OBEs?


Demonstrate? Possible, but not probable I would think.

The sound was dominating what I was experiencing to the point where no other perception was possible.


Speaking of sound dominating one's perception, well not quite that, but I was walking through the shop today at work and Nights on Broadway by the Bee Gees was on the radio. I cannot get it out of my head. I have never owned a Bee Gees album in my life, but that song is so freakin catchy. If I didn't scratch this itch I was gonna go nuts. I found this- Nights On Broadway This is a great performance. Look at how ecstatic Barry is. Can anyone really resist these harmonies? And what is it about harmonies like this that kind of grab your brain and induce a shivering endorphin cascade?

To answer your question a little more seriously, it seems that in many of the accounts of the paranormal and OBE's there is often a sound of sorts that accompanies the experience. I get the crinkling cellophane sound when something not normal is happening. It's almost like an alarm bell now for me. I think Jeff mentions the buzzing sound accompanies many accounts of the mothman sightings. That's where I first read of that and thought of Quatermass and the Pit. Have you ever seen it?


Blaming it all (blaming it all) on the nights of broadway
(blame it on the nights of broadway)....

This might be stuck in my head for a few days.
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Postby brainpanhandler » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:51 pm

Kropotkin wrote:It's not Bowie, but it's certainly not of this world....

The Carpenters - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft!


That's the song that gave rise to this thread via the lounge music thread.

It's not really lounge music either which gives you an idea of permeability of the boundaries.

The thread title is likely to change again. And I see Thurnundtaxis posted these
on the Vacant lounge thread when they seemingly belong here, which is delightful.
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Postby brainpanhandler » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:23 pm

And there's this

All better now. I think the Bee Gees thing was like having a horrible craving for Crunch Berries.

Now there's a narcotic... a bowl of Crunch Berries and 70's saturday morning cartoons. I should do that... a sort of bizarre regressive time warp infantilization thing.
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Postby compared2what? » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:41 am

brainpanhandler wrote:
I've been studying this picture. A few utterly facile observations/questions...

First of all, can I see her right nipple, complete with areola?! This image must have been produced by the photoshop technique of the day. Their faces look like air brushed photos and distinct from everything else in the style of their rendition. And who the hell is he waving to?


Those aren't facile questions. They are probative and potentially profound; the unexamined Criswell/Mae-West-on-the-moon picture is not worth posting.

You are totally right about the nipple. No question. And to think that the erect-nipple Farrah Fawcett red-bathing-suit poster has been getting undeserved credit as a barrier breaker all this time.

I noted that the heads look photoshopped in, and, frankly, cannot vouch for its authenticity. I found it on the internets, and was amused by it. I am a collector in an ad hoc way of any and all stuff that validates my historical view of the 20th century. (Don't ask. And I will not tell.) That does include some ephemera and magazines from this period but not much in this genre. (It also includes some space-travel related artifacts and assorted junk, but not much ephemera.)

So I don't really have the requisite connoisseurship to judge it very far. It's true to what I know about commercial illustration of the '50s in general terms, but has some features I don't associate with all those "Amazing Stories" type publications, in my limited exposure to them. For one thing, I can't recall ever seeing a celebrity illo in any fantasy book of the era, and my general impression is that the economics of the category were such that four-color art would automatically mean cover art. I'm not very confident about that, but if so, it would be anomalous insofar as it doesn't seem to be a cover. Damsels in fantasy art were then (as they are now, I think) almost always either in distress or D-d-d-dominatrixesque. And Mae West is neither.

The faces are clearly based on still photographs, and it probably wouldn't be too hard to find the photographs on which they're based. Major commercial airbrush art trends in America do include sci-fi and those do incorporate the kind of vestigial trace of the deco period in which it had previously commercially graphically flourished, as seen here in the phallic spaceship in the upper left. And...I could go on and on in this manner, thumbing through the card catalog of Random Things Known to Me for pages without saying an interesting thing or on-point thing.

I will make some feeble attempt to investigate further.

I don't know who he's waving at. I wondered that, too. Don't tell anyone, but I think it might be me.
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Postby brainpanhandler » Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:53 am

So, I really couldn't help myself... I did a google search with the terms “your anus” I laughed when I saw that Google says, "See results for : Uranus" three links down on the page. Does that mean that folks searching for Uranus misspell it?

I was hoping that an author of the wiki page for uranus might have a sense of humor. Wiki page for Uranus

Wiki wrote:Uranus and Neptune have internal and atmospheric compositions different from those of the larger gas giants Jupiter and Saturn.

Incidental, but I wonder if the author smiled nonetheless.

I was faintly amused by this as well-

The preferred pronunciation of the name Uranus among astronomers is [ˈjʊərənəs], with the first syllable stressed and a short a (ūrănŭs)[38]; this is more classically correct than the alternate [jʊˈɹeɪ.nəs], with stress on the second syllable and a "long a" (ūrānŭs), which is often used in the English-speaking world.
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Postby brainpanhandler » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:04 am

I will make some feeble attempt to investigate further.


You're so modest. You've got more serious business on the teen rebellion thread.

I wasn't suggesting the criswell/mae west picture was not authentic, just that the creator of that image used techniques that must have been that period's equivalent of photoshop.
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Postby brainpanhandler » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:22 am

In searching for Queen flash gordon I ran across this which I thought was particularly well done.

Which lead to Lennox/Bowie Mercury tribute
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Postby IanEye » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:14 pm

Quiet
Don't tell anybody
Don't let 'em know
There's a secret


Bowie
http://rapidshare.de/files/38463827/RS_121_Bowie.pdf.html

Sun Ra
http://rapidshare.de/files/38463825/RS_31_SunRa.pdf.html

I know the secret song now
They wouldn't tell me
But somehow I found out
Yeah
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Postby compared2what? » Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:14 pm

That RS cover is ssssweet. Lest he go under-holla'd at, shout out to Mick Rock, who took the picture on it. And who is already a presence on this page, both by tacit reference (shot photo on cover of "Rock n Roll Animal") and explicit but uncredited appearance (directed second "Space Oddity" video.

I'm especially fond of this one.

Image

He also shot the cover for Queen II, which must have reached outer space by some undetermined means, because, as you can see, even these aliens, whose customs and costumes are otherwise so outlandish as to be alarming, are familiar with it, and honor it by imitation in what one can only imagine is one of the rites of their native planet. They're so cute when they're young.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyqpjkCwEI4

Actually, I love these kids in these moments. Whatever and whoever they are or have lived through or will become, if this is not the picture of innocence, I do not know what is. Also...This is not as true as it was when I was young and innocent, but it's still truer than not that if a woman have many more options vis-a-vis the sartorial expression of themselves as sexual beings if that's what they want to express than men do. It's really not a lot more difficult to signify than whatever difficulties are entailed in buying and applying some candy-apple red glossy lipstick. Whereas for most of my life, men's options were limited to: Standing onstage and playing rock guitar. And, obvs, that requires somewhat more effort.

By analogy, I like these boys for the emotional sincerity they may be too innocent to know they're revealing. I mean, for all I know, they may always be this open in their feelings. But there's a nice counterpoint between the dress code for this performance, traditionally signifying "no feelingz allowed" and their heartfelt delivery of Freddy Mercury's exquisitely detached pan-existential gay Zoroastrian lament.

You know?

I want to change my RI name. How do I do that?
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